KERRY Cricket Club has been shortlisted for the Cricket Ireland Club of the Year. The club was founded in 1872 but this year made great strides when it moved to the picturesque purpose built Oyster Oval in Spa. They have been shortlisted alongside some illustrious clubs from around the country, they […]

AS PART of their winter schedule of free events and activities, Manor West Shopping Centre and Retail Park are organising a “Family Funday” on this Saturday, November 5 from 12 noon. The day will feature lots of fun things to do for kids of all ages, the highlight of which […]

THERE is a lot going on at the Craft Makers Centre this month which will be of interest to many people interested in creative arts. A beginners painting course with Roisín McGuigan will take place on Thursday mornings:  10th, 17th and 24th 10.30-1.00pm. It costs €100 for the three weeks and refreshments will […]

A NEW information pack for bereaved parents was launched yesterday in the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, by Anam Cara – the national organisation that supports bereaved parents. It launched the new resource aimed at supporting bereaved parents in the early days after the death of their son or daughter. Over 30 local organisations were at […]

A FILM that was shot in Tralee by a filmmaker from Tralee will get an advanced preview screening for the first time tonight in Siamsa Tire. CON was written, directed and produced by Tralee filmmaker, Bertie Brosnan and judging by this sneak peak (below), it’s looking pretty interesting. Continued below… […]

A UK COMPANY with offices in Tralee is to merge with a similar firm to create the seventh biggest travel management company in Britain. Portman Travel and Clarity Travel Management are to become one business following the acquisition of Portman Travel by the owners of Clarity Travel Management, Mawasem Travel & Tourism, for […]

OVER the past week there have been reports of a door to door scam that began in the Fenit area and over the weekend was experienced by some residents in the Ballinorig area. The fraudsters are masquerading as members of Tralee RFC, using the club logo and crest to sell lines under the guise of […]

THERE has been a sharp increase in the price of petrol around town over the last month and there isn’t a lot of difference between the vast majority of the town’s 13 garages. Over the course of a month petrol has risen by €0.05 per litre at most of the […]

NEW car sales were down last month in Kerry on October 2015 figures…but by just one unit! There were 33 new car registrations in October as opposed to 34 for the same month last year, a drop of 2.94%. Over the whole year so far though, new car sales are up […]

THE madness of Halloween may be over for another year, but there will be plenty painted faces around Tralee in less than two weeks time when the National Circus Festival of Ireland comes to town. The 15th annual festival will get underway in Tralee from Thursday, November 10 to Sunday, November 13. At […]

KERRY footballer and garda, Aidan O’Mahony, grabbed the only goal in a 1-0 victory in the Mary Kate Healy Memorial Soccer Match between local members of Garda Síochána and staff at the Bon Secours Hospital. The match was played in good sprits at a fresh KDL on Saturday night with […]

  FOR those of you passing the Courthouse last night, you may have been wondering what all the pumpkins and candles were doing on the steps. Well, it was Kerry for Choice in collaboration with Kerry Knicker Collective who placed 12 pumpkins and 56 candles there to highlight the 12 Irish women […]

FORMER Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Dick Spring will officially open the Tralee 800 Conference this Friday evening, November 4, in Siamsa Tíre Theatre. The two-day conference in Siamsa and the Rose Hotel will explore the 800 year history of Tralee and earlier. It forms part of this year’s Tralee […]

IT’S been a good year for Tralee Triathlon Club and even better for some its athletes who have been chosen to represent Ireland at the World Championships in 2017. Suzanne O’Sullivan from Farranfore and Ciara Tierney from Tralee will both be representing Ireland at the 2017 ITU World Triathlon Championships in […]

SO the first ever John Mitchels ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ event was a huge success with over 700 packing into Ballygarry House Hotel last night. Friends and families of the 22 contestants brought banners and a lot of noise to the occasion and it created a fantastic atmosphere at the venue. […]

THE performers at the Tenacity School of Performing Arts certainly had an eventful weekend. A large crowd of young performers and their families gathered at the school’s base in Moyderwell on Saturday night for the end of term presentations. “The students received Irish Board Of Speech And Drama certificates for their acting, […]

SINGER/SONGWRITER Leo O’Kelly entertained audiences at The Acoustic Room at Il Forno on Saturday night, continuing the list of top artists performing upstairs at the restaurant. The former Tir Na nOg singer had a small but captive audience for the gig. Scroll down for photos…

A SPECTACULAR night of entertainment was enjoyed by over 700 people in Ballygarry House Hotel last night for the inaugural John Mitchels GAA Club ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ event. While the 11 couples impressed the judges and audience alike, there had to be one winner and the silky moves of Frank O’Donnell and […]

Gavin O’Connor was in Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, on Sunday afternoon to see the Glenbeigh/Glencar beat Na Gaeil in the replay of the Castleisland Mart Junior Premier County Final… Glenbeigh/Glencar 1-16 (19) Na Gaeil 0-12 THERE is to be no fairytale championship run for Na Gaeil who were beaten by Glenbeigh/Glencar in the […]

THERE was a great turnout at the Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Saturday night for the Tralee Golf Club Captain’s Dinner. There was a lot to celebrate too as captain Liam Nolan explained. “I’m a member in Tralee for many years and so are my family and I’m delighted to be […]

THERE were some dangerous looking types in the Abbey Inn last night but it was all for a great cause. Terence Crean and Manus Leane organised a charity Fancy Dress Rock Night in the bar and some people really made the effort for the occasion. The two charities benefitting were […]

WHAT is ‘Oneness’? Well it is absence of ‘Twoness’. I know and accept that this is a corny answer but there might just be something in it. You see, what I refer to as ‘Twoness’ is often referred to as duality in psychology. Duality, in other words, means moving into […]

YESTERDAY we brought you photos from the IT Tralee graduation ceremony on Friday morning, where students from the School of Business, Computing and Humanities got their just rewards for their hard work. Here’s the final part of our coverage from the two days of conferrings at the Brandon Hotel Conference […]

ON Friday morning, the results of years of study bore fruit for hundreds of students from IT Tralee. The students from courses in the School of Business, Computing and Humanities gathered at the Brandon Hotel for their conferring ceremony and received the congratulations from the IT Tralee President, Oliver Murphy. […]

PUPILS had a great start to the mid-term break when the school dressed up for a Halloween party on Friday. Vampires, zombies, witches and superheroes walked the corridors of the school as each class got a chance to enjoy party games and fun in the school hall. A fun time then […]

HUNDREDS of students gathered in the Brandon Conference Centre on Friday for two IT Tralee conferring ceremonies. In the afternoon it was the turn of students who completed courses in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the School of Health and Social Sciences to step up to […]

Gavin O’Connor looks at the Na Gaeil v Glenbeigh/Glencar, County Junior Premier Football Championship Final Replay, Fitzgerald Stadium, Sunday 2:30pm… THERE is a chance for both sides to reset the clock after the arduous drawn final two weeks ago, which was slog for players and those in the stand and […]

COLLEAGUES of Marc Ó Sé at CBS The Green threw a surprise party for him on Friday to say thanks for his 14 years of service to the Kerry senior football team. “I have been very lucky that they have been very supportive down through the years,” said Marc who began teaching in […]

AS we reported earlier (click here for previous coverage), Thursday saw students from the School of Health and Social Sciences conferred with degrees at the Brandon Conference Centre. They were some of the close on 1,000 IT Tralee students attending graduation ceremonies on Thursday and Friday. The graduation was a special occasion for the […]

AN Taoiseach Enda Kenny has launched a new service from the Federation for Victim Assistance,  a group co-founded by a Tralee woman. Former Tralee Town Councillor, Mairead Fernane, joint-president of the organisation, was in Dublin for the launch of the new confidential freephone number 1800 277 477 which has been established to provide free […]